A Bird In Stone
genderqueer asexual philomath, specialty in biology; pronouns "they" please
so a random stylized doodle I did in the margins of one of my notepapers yesterday is now the keystone of my current writing project, linking together what was formerly four or five disparate storylines
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You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this because you think he…
So at Connecticon there’s going to be a panel on friendzones.
I find this very problematic. I really want whoever runs Connecticon to maybe rethink this, and read up on how people use friendzones to harass other people. I feel, as Connecticon is stated as a FAMILY-oriented convention, you should either make this panel 18+ or remove it. Many men already harass women at conventions, and a panel about friendzones(which in reality, are just people getting mad that someone doesn’t return their romantic intrest and feel that the other person, usually a women, is obligated to love them because they’re nice.) it’s very problematic, and makes me kind of nervous.
So, Connecticon staff, I would appreciate you looking over that panel, and maybe making an age limit for it. Thank you for your time.
there is nothing romantic about
- not knowing you’re beautiful
- loving someone until they learn to love themselves
please stop romanticizing low self esteem.
it’s one thing to love a person who happens to have low self esteem
it’s another thing to frame low self esteem as a desirable trait.
(via xiilnek)
I think I’ve talked about it before but here it is again.
The ISIS construction! Spelled like the mythological figure but pronounced like the English verb — “is is.” And I feel like talking about it!!
Note that there are English sentences which also result in two adjacent occurrences of the verb “is.”
- What it is is a veiled criticism of the patriarchy!
These involve a bi-clausal structure in which both the subordinate and matrix clause have “is” as the main verb. In essence, the subordinate clause is acting as the subject of the main clause. Here it is again, with each clause in brackets.
- [[What it is] is a veiled criticism of the patriarchy!]
Two verbs, two clauses. All good.
Here’s where it gets interesting: more and more often, you can find cases where people use two adjacent occurrences of the verb “is” — WITHOUT the bi-clausal structure!
- The thing is is that the patriarchy is problematic!
In the first example I gave you, the subject of the sentence is a subordinate clause — “what it is.” Here, the subject of the sentence is a noun phrase — “the thing.” Here it is again with the subject in brackets.
- [[The thing] is is that the patriarchy is problematic!]
Two verbs, one clause. Weird!!
This is the ISIS construction. It’s not something you can pass of easily as “bad English,” because some of the best examples I’ve heard occurred at academic conferences, on the news, or otherwise in highly formal contexts. It seems most likely that it’s a prosodic effect — I’ve talked about this interpretation of it before. It has something to do with putting the main stress on the verb “is,” leading to a sort of “doubling” effect where you add another, unstressed copy of the same verb.
So there it is. ISIS! Best name, best construction.
This paper argues against the prosodic/disfluency explanation and states it’s basically an “Assertive” construction.
When I use it, it’s because I’m parsing the sentences as [The thing is] [is that the patriarchy is problematic], where “The thing is” is a sort of introductory phrase saying “Here I am going to explain you a thing”
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(Source: bonebeat, via hidden-agender)
You know, the one that gives housewives/full-time mothers a pension— wages for housework?
It’s ONLY A HUGE VICTORY FOR FEMINISM, SOCIALISM, AND WOMEN OF COLOR. Not a big deal or anything. Tumblr is mysteriously silent about this.
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2013/05/venezuelas-new-labour-law-best-mothers-day-gift
holy shit!
(via hidden-agender)
dont be mean
be median or mode
damn math fandom bloggers
shut up we have a good range of jokes
this is our domain
guys we’re forgetting the point of this post and going off on a tangent
how did a three-word post cos this many puns
Truly it’s a cardinal sine.
Now let’s not go off on a tangent…
Snow White from Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs is strong. She is feminists favorite punching bag, right after Aurora but at least every once in awhile someone will come to Aurora’s defense. Snow (and Cinderella frankly) are seen as what is wrong with the Disney princesses. Snow likes cute animals, cooking, cleaning, and a useless dwarf. She befriends seven strange men who end up saving her in the end. Dude, the prince just comes and kisses her. She is stereotypically feminine. She doesn’t go fight for her country. She doesn’t prevent a war from breaking out. Girl is nice to every single person she meets, even the woman who tried to kill her. She felt bad that she scared the animals when they found her crying in the woods. She is kind hearted. She wants to help everyone she meets. Her looking out for others is what got her killed.
All of that being said does not make her weak. Sure, she is a bit naive but she lived a rather sheltered life. The queen had her locked away doing chores all day. When she found out the queen wanted her killed, instead of standing in the field looking at the huntsman, she fucking ran. She ran away to protect herself. She left an abusive home (she lived with the queen in her castle). When she met the dwarfs, she bargained with them so they wouldn’t kick her out. She ran that house. She put the dwarves and animals to work. She was very sweet but she was also the head bitch in charge. Even Grumpy didn’t try to backtalk her.
The fact she needed the dwarfs and animals to save her doesn’t make her weak. Saving yourself is more than just killing the enemy. It is about surviving, which Snow White did. She may not know how to throw a punch, shoot an arrow, or save her country, that doesn’t make her weak. Not every woman can defeat their demons/enemies on their own. Some of them need help from their friends, which the dwarfs and animals were to Snow, to defeat their enemy and that doesn’t make them weak.
Also, girls who prefer Snow White to Merida are not weak or “too girly.” There is no such thing as being “too girly.” Not all girls are going to relate to Merida and that is okay. Not all girls are going to like Snow White. Some girls like both characters. There is nothing wrong with girls liking the classic Disney princesses. There is nothing wrong with girls preferring the newer princesses. What is a problem is when people try to deem what princesses are “good” or “bad.”
Honestly, bravo. This is one of the best posts I’ve seen on tumblr. I hate that people think Snow is weak because she doesn’t perform heroic acts and, like you said, is traditionally feminine.
She managed to escape from the Evil Queen, make the best out of the situation in the woods and befriended the dwarves, and eventually found her Prince and her happily ever after. There is nothing wrong with that.
(via fives-lapel)
